Improvement in current-wheels



C. MO'REHOUSE.

Improvement in Current-Wheels.

Patented May 16,1871.

AM. PHOTO din/001M PH 16 C0. 11!. K/ NEON/E's PRGLES 5) CLARK. MOREHOUSE, OF. WAYDA-N D,

NEW YORK-ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND JOHN W. DOUGHTY, OF SAME'PLAOE.

Letters Patent No. 114,959, dated m 16; 1871.

IMPROVEMENT IN CURRENT-WHEELS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and. making part of the same.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CLARK-MOREHOUSE, of Wayland, in the countyof Steuben and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Current-Wheels; and I do hereby declare that thefollowing is a full,clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawiug and to the letters of reference marked thereon which form apart of this specification.

The nature of my invention consists in the construction and arrangement of a current water-wheel, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth.

. In order to .enable others skilled in the art to which my invention appertains to make and use the same, I will now'proceed to describe its construction and operation, referring to the annexed drawing, in which- Figure l is a front view, and

Figure 2 is an end view. I

A represents a horizontal shaft, having its bearings in a suitable frame, to be submerged in a stream; and

upon this shaft is secured any desired number of wheels B B.

Each of these wheels is composed of two circular metallic plates, b 72, secured together in the center between two collars, a a, and placed on the shaft A, the

collars being keyed fast onto said shaft.

The plates b b are then'cnt at regular intervals from the outer edge to a suitable distance from the center, thus forming, as it were, a series of segments of equal sizeconnectedtogeth'er in the center.

One edge of each of said segments, or more properly the two edges of theplates 1) b, at one edge of each section, are then firmly joined together, while the other two edges of said plates, at the other edge of each segment, are bent outwardfas shown in fig.

1, forming the buckets. Any desired number of such wheels maybe placed on the same shaft, according to the power desired.

The wheels BB, instead of beingmade of; two circular plates, may be made of segmental plates joined together in the center.

The power to be obtained from a current by the use of wheelsiconstructed and applied as herein set forth may be increased or diminished at pleasure, not only by the multiplication of wheels upon the shaft, but also by the adjustment of them with respect to the intervening spaces, since it is manifest that such wheels in close proximity, by disturbing the current and producing cross-currents, impair the efficiency ofeach other; hence neither-the V-shaped buckets nor the key and groove is herein claimed as separately novel.

Having thus fully described my invention,

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Let ters Patent," is

A series of wheels with V-sliaped buclrets, secured to a shaft was to be readily adj nsted upon said shaft, substantially-as and for the purpose described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my' own I atfix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CLARK MOREHQUSE.

Witnesses:

H. W. GARNSEY, H. G. FAY. 

